“What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.” WantGivingUseWatchesDangerProjectsSignificantVanityTemporaryMinorsPopularity Author:Danny Boyle
“It's challenging and interesting for me to work on projects that are unique and unconventional. I'm so bored with seeing the same recycled material.” ChallengesInterestingSeeingMaterialsProjectsUniqueBoredUnconventionalRecycledSo Bored Author:Nina Dobrev
“I love the idea of getting to play different characters and tell some stories. When you're passionate about a project, it's nice to get the part.” IdeasDifferentPlayCharacterStoriesNiceProjectsPassionateDifferent Characters Author:Emma Roberts
“I think the reason why I have so many movies to my credit is that I never say no to any project, I never veto anything. I sort of challenge myself to do stuff, even if it's something that I've never done before.” IfsThinkingReasonDoneStuffChallengesProjectsCreditReason WhyVeto Author:Takashi Miike
“I don't consciously seek out Australian projects. I put them on the same table as all the other scripts and I wouldn't ever do a film just because it's been shot at home.” HomeFilmProjectsShotsTablesScriptsAustralian Author:Eric Bana
“It was mainly to do with Helen Hunt, to be honest. That's what drew my attention to it. I was interested in the fact that she was going to be directing. I'd never met her but she projects a degree of intelligence and it was convincing t me that she'd be able to handle this sort of material very well.” WellsFactsAbleAttentionHonestMaterialsMetsDegreesProjectsHandleBeing HonestHuntsConvincingHelen Author:Colin Firth
“In any of the big acting cities, there are breakdowns that the casting directors put together for the projects that they're working on and then they get sent out to the agents and stuff like that. It's difficult to find projects, sometimes, unless your agent or manager is submitting you for those specific projects.” SometimesBigsTogetherStuffDifficultActingCitiesDirectorsProjectsAgentsManagersCastingBreakdownCasting Directors Author:Bostin Christopher
“There is this thing called Actors Access, which is run by the breakdown services. What they do is they put up casting notices that are available to everyone. Because there's thousands and thousands of actors and there are student films and grad student films and, sometimes, some small independent projects that are on there.” SometimesRunningFilmActorsStudentsProjectsIndependentAvailableAccessCastingBreakdownGrad Author:Bostin Christopher
“It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver it to everyone via e-mail.” WritingActorsTalkingPaperProjectsMail Author:Kristen Stewart
“If I am creating the shots from scratch I may have to spend more time holding the directors hand and therefore have less time to finesse the shot or the lighting etc. but it really all depends on the project. Some films benefit from their spontaneity.” IfsMayHandsFilmDependsDirectorsBenefitsProjectsCreatingShotsEtcMore TimeScratchesSpontaneityLightingFinesse Author:Roger Deakins
“I've really been sort of focused on acting and I feel really lucky because great projects sort of keep coming my way. I guess the criteria that I look for, it gets increasingly difficult because when you have the privilege of working with someone like Diane [Keaton], it's kind of like, 'Well, where do you go from there.'” WayFeelsWellsLooksKindDifficultActingLuckyProjectsPrivilegeFocusedMy WayCriteria Author:Mandy Moore
“Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.” FirstsTwoDirectorsProjectsScriptsTwo Things Author:Cameron Diaz
“It's thrilling to have the opportunity to work in different areas, whether it's on a project that has all the resources behind it like Harry Potter or James Bond and then to go somewhere there's very few resources.” DifferentOpportunityBehindsProjectsResourcesAreasHarry PotterThrillingPotters Author:Ralph Fiennes
“Any time you do a project you never really know how people are going to take it especially on TV. I think they used to be more forgiving with shows.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShowsUsedKnow HowTvsProjectsForgivingUsed To Be Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt
“I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.” IfsWantYearsLongEnoughPastTakenHavensProjectsNew Projects Author:I. M. Pei
“My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in my case it's been longer, because the projects I have accepted within the past 15 years have been mostly government projects, and those involve some politics and funding issues, and approvals and so forth. So they're slower.” YearsLongHas BeensGovernmentMightPastCasesIssuesTakenFiveBuildingProjectsLong TimeSevenAverageAcceptedApprovalSeven YearsFunding Author:I. M. Pei
“When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see it as an opportunity for my own ego, to do something so exciting that every architectural publication would want to put it on the cover. I accepted it because I knew it was going to be a very difficult project, and I wasn't sure I could do something exciting there.” WantOpportunityDifficultMy OwnEgoProjectsExcitingWingsHistoricalAcceptedInstanceMuseumsPublication Author:I. M. Pei
“Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw on the history of the country; its history is really just being a desert. But I thought, the one thing I must learn about for this project is the Islamic faith. So I read about Islam and Islamic architecture, and the more I studied the more I realized where the best Islamic buildings were.” DoeCountryOne ThingBuildingProjectsDrawsIslamArchitectureI RealizedDesertIslamicJust BeingQatarEmiratesIslamic Faith Author:I. M. Pei
“Many of the projects I'm most proud of are tall buildings, especially the housing projects. In New York I have two: one in Kips Bay and one at New York University. At that time, those projects were most challenging.” TwoChallengesNew YorkBuildingProudProjectsUniversityTallHousingTall Buildings Author:I. M. Pei
“I didn't want to think about a project that I couldn't finish. That's a kind of temptation. One has to realize one's limitations. Why kid yourself?” ThinkingWantKindKidsRealizingProjectsTemptationLimitation Author:I. M. Pei
“I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always get my best ideas the closer I come to the end of a project, after I've lived with it for a while.” YearsIdeasEndsEnoughSpacePlansProjectsNarrativeSchemes Author:Grant Morrison
“Sometimes you think, "Oh man, this is going to be a fantastic movie," and then when you see it put together, you're like, "Oh, huh. Well, that didn't turn out quite the way I thought." Sometimes you think you're part of a project and it isn't that great, and then it sort of becomes a pleasant surprise. But I think there's just too many elements that affect the tone of a movie, so I think even for a director, it may be hard to gauge that.” ThinkingMenWayWellsMaySometimesHardTogetherTurnsDirectorsElementsProjectsSurpriseFantasticTonePleasantGaugesPleasant Surprises Author:Anna Faris
“I'm very interested in starting to produce, and direct, and have an umbrella over an entire project in the future. I'd like to have control over what the characters do. I think as an actor, you get a little too caught up in the moment-to-moment, beat-to-beat stuff to have perspective.” ThinkingLittlesMomentsCharacterActorsStuffProducePerspectiveProjectsBeatsDirectStartingCaughtCaught UpUmbrella Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“Part of what's exciting to me about my career is the constant looking forward. Whenever I finish one project, I am looking to what's next.” NextCareersProjectsExcitingConstantLooking Forward Author:Michael Ian Black
“You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.” WorldWritingFirstsLittlesCharacterChoicesActorsGivenSubjectsDesignDirectorsProjectsCreatingPropertyProductionsStudiosProducersCostumesProduction Design Author:Rainn Wilson
“If you are a libertine, if you're not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It's like the person who knows they're not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else.” IfsKnowsPersonsLongGivenTermBehaviorProjectsFaithfulLong TermTrustworthyMistrustLibertineNot Trustworthy Author:Ben Kingsley
“Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project.” FirstsInterestTeacherDirectorsProjectsCraving Author:Naomi Watts
“I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.” WorldPersonsWholeFactsPartyProductsTravelProjectsPaidAppearanceAround The WorldTrendsFunny TravelPromotingAlways WorkingEndorsing Author:Paris Hilton
“Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So I've been inventing little projects and challenges to sort of kick my ass with the lyrics.” LittlesGivenChallengesProjectsMajorsAssKicksMelodyDistractionInventing Author:Andrew Bird
“I'm not a home-studio guy. I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.” IfsNeedsHelpingHomeTogetherGuySongMy OwnProjectsStudiosDevelopingHelp MeNutsCounterparts Author:Andrew Bird
“I like confounding expectations. I can expand what it is I am able to do, and hopefully get to do more weird, interesting projects like this. There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone. And how the audience perceives that... It's out of my hands. And I don't get that frustrated by it, because I'm on to the next thing at that point.” WantI CanHandsAbleNextStuffInterestingAudienceComedyComfortProjectsExpectationsHopefullyPerceiveZoneFrustratedComfort ZoneConfounding Author:Patton Oswalt
“Someone once told me it's more important what you turn down than what you take, and I think that rings true, especially when you're trying to make decisions about how you want to be viewed. It's hard, because I also want to have fun, and if there's a project that's super-small or low-budget or silly but it happens to have friends involved, I'll always take it, because my number-one priority is that I want to have fun with my career.” IfsThinkingWantTryingImportantHardHappensTurnsFunDecisionNumbersCareersInvolvedProjectsLowsPrioritiesRingsSillyHaving FunBudgets Author:Kristen Bell
“For me, what grabs my attention about the project is usually the character immediately and then the story, and then the people that are involved.” PeopleCharacterStoriesAttentionInvolvedProjects Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.” IfsKnowsWayReasonHelpingAgeSidesProjectsProfitTherapyHelp MeTherapeutic Author:Sophie Calle
“I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.” GivingTryingI CanEndsStoriesNaturalProjects Author:Sophie Calle
“I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a project is a good director. I just want to work with these guys that I admire because I do want to direct my own films one day, and I want to pick their brains to see what their process is like, and see what I can take from that.” WantTryingLittlesI CanFilmGuyBitsProcessMy OwnBrainRolesOne DayDirectorsProjectsLittle BitPicksDirectAdmireCriteriaGood Directors Author:Dave Franco
“On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.” PeopleWantFirstsIdeasFeltSidesHellWeekProveEqualProjectsAdmireNervesFlipProve MyselfNew Projects Author:Dave Franco
“I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.” IfsWantFirstsStillsI CanShowsTogetherDiesNamesMy OwnCompanyStageTvsRight NowProjectsProductionsTv ShowsFunny Or DieTeaming Up Author:Dave Franco
“I wouldn't be where I am without these Funny or Die videos in general. When I was first starting out, I would take roles just to get the experience, but not exactly because I believed in the projects I was doing.” FirstsDiesRolesProjectsStartingVideoStarting OutFunny Or Die Author:Dave Franco
“It's because the idea of what's cool is different. When you talk to a girl who goes to regular school, what's cool is whether or not you've been to jail, or if you have a car. If you talk to a girl who goes to art school, what's cool to her is if you do art projects on the weekend with your dad, if you can build something - out-of-the-norm stuff.” IfsArtIdeasDifferentSchoolGirlStuffCarDadProjectsJailWeekendNormArt SchoolYour DadArt Projects Author:Anthony Mackie
“Making music clips, I have a responsibility to depict the artist in a way that suits them, and feels comfortable with how they want to present their music. From there I usually try to tell a story visually that complements the music, that lets the music be the hero element of the project. I just try to do something that feels sincere and creative and a little bit home-brewed so it doesn't feel too plastic or phony.” WayWantFeelsTryingLittlesStoriesHomeArtistBitsResponsibilityCreativeHeroElementsComfortableProjectsLittle BitMusic IsSuitsSincerePlasticPhonyComplementClip Author:Adria Petty
“I think people are willing to take more of a risk on an indie film, about character, etc...but at the same time, when I work on projects that are substantially bigger, in a way they do feel small. Even though the catering is way better and we actually have someone shooting with real film.... The budgets are bigger but the story still feels small, like an indie film.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsStillsRealCharacterStoriesFilmRiskWillingProjectsBiggerShootingBudgetsEtcCateringIndie Films Author:Adam Driver
“The thing I love about acting is getting to change and look at different people in different lives and do different projects.” PeopleLooksDifferentActingProjectsDifferent PeoplesThings I LoveDifferent Life Author:Keira Knightley
“I'm somewhat antagonistic towards these various projects that charge $250,000 per person for the ability to be weightless for 3 minutes after being brought up from earth. I think there are such better uses for that money that i seriously question the ethics of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on space flights for extremely wealthy people.” PeopleThinkingPersonsUseEarthAbilitySpaceMinutesProjectsEthicsDollarsVariousSpendingFlightWealthySpace Flight Author:Arthur Frommer
“In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.” IdeasProjectsInstinctRelyPhoto Shoots Author:Carine Roitfeld
“I got to a point in my life when I'd done loads of things I regretted. I made all the wrong decisions. I was trying to fill my life with all these projects, hoping that one of them would succeed. I was like a cheating girlfriend. I was cheating on all the bands with other bands, and I was trying to manage everything.” TryingMadeDoneDecisionSucceedBandProjectsManageGirlfriendCheatingLoadWrong Decision Author:Duffy
“I've had a great run with great projects. I love the film industry. It keeps you young; it really does.” DoeRunningFilmYoungIndustryProjectsFilm Industry Author:Kellan Lutz
“My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindI CanCharacterChoicesActorsLostDifficultTermChanceProjectsMy FavoriteObviousMysteriousCraftsPreservesAllowingSlipsPersonal LifePersonaEnigmatic Author:Scarlett Johansson
“I've always wanted to work with Cameron Crowe. I've auditioned for him several times for various projects over the last ten years, and I've always admired the way he worked with me.” WayYearsWantedLastsTenProjectsVariousCameron Author:Scarlett Johansson
“I started, with three friends, this website called Crowdrise that's sort of the Facebook for personal philanthropy, a place where anybody can have a permanent microsite of their own to stage creative fundraising projects for the charities and causes that they care about. And we did it with serious intent but without any ambition.” CareThreeCausesCreativeStageSeriousAmbitionProjectsCharityPermanentPhilanthropyWebsiteFundraisingThree Friends Author:Edward Norton